Teenage beauty walks to her death on motorway after being dumped by violent lover

HEARTBREAK: Tragic Lena felt she could not live without her boyfriend [CASCADE]

Lena Begum, 18, wandered around on the M65 for up to two hours before she stepped in front of a van.

Just minutes before, she left a 3am voicemail for Quzlam Ahmed saying: “You will probably love me one day the way I loved you, but it will be too late.”

Friends said she was “mentally obsessed” with Ahmed.

She is said to have smiled as pals dropped her off near the motorway at Burnley at around 1.30am in April last year after a night out.

DEATH SCENE: The aftermath of the horrific accident on the M65 [CASCADE]

“You will probably love me one day the way I loved you, but it will be too late”

Lena Begum

Recalling the last time she saw her, friend Marcia Khan said: “Everything was fine. She was normal. She turned around and she smiled.” Lena, from Brierfield, Lancs, started seeing Ahmed despite his “history of violence” after meeting him at a hospital in Bradford, Burnley Coroner’s Court heard.

She had previously been treated for self-harming after carving his nickname Kammy into her arm.

Taslema Alom, who was with Lena on the morning of her death, told the inquest: “I think she was mentally obsessed with him. After she got with him she changed.

“It was like he controlled her. I saw him punch her on one occasion.”

Assistant coroner Mark Williams said: “It is quite clear that before 4am Ms Begum walked across the path of a Mercedes van.”He concluded Lena took her own life.